Earth and Environmental Sciences Guide: Tropical Plant Sciences & Agriculture: Websites
Tropical Plant Sciences & Agriculture community
Agriculture
- Agricultural Research Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture)Conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems
- Crop ExplorerProvides an analytical tool of crop condition information from around the world
- Department of Agriculture and EnergyThis Australian Government Department's role is to develop and implement policies and programs that ensure Australia's agricultural industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable
- PlantFacts: Horticulture and Crop Science in Virtual PerspectiveCollections of data and multimedia tools
Tropical Plant Sciences
- Department of the EnvironmentThis Australian Government Department develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical DatabasesTechnical information on the chemicals found in plants and their ethnobotanical uses
- Landcare AustraliaAustralian partnership between the community, government and business to tackle land degradation
- NatureServeConservation information on plants, animals and ecological communities
- Plants in MotionTime-lapse movies of plant growth, movement, and behavior in response to various stimuli
- The Centre for Australian National Biodiversity ResearchThe Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) includes the Australian National Herbarium. These are jointly managed by CSIRO and the Director of National Parks with strong links to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The Herbarium, with over 1.2 million specimens, is responsible for the scientific integrity of the Gardens' plant labeling and manages the national plant name lists for Australia's botanical community.
- The Australasian Virtual HerbariumAustralian and New Zealand herbaria house over eight million plant, algae and fungi specimens. Herbarium specimens are an important resource for research on the Australasian flora and provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time. The AVH provides access to the collecting data associated with these specimens.
Classification
- Angiosperm Phylogeny WebsiteA classification of angiosperms that can be navigated either by phylogenic tree, Order, or Family. There are literature references and links to other related Web sites
- Australian Plant CensusThe Australian Plant Census (APC) provides a list of currently accepted names for the Australian vascular flora, both native and introduced.
- eFloras.orgVirtual library of online floras offering resources from leading international institutions of botanical research
- GrameneA curated, open-source, data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses
- Index FungorumWorld database of fungal names at the species level and below
- International Legume Database & Information ServiceOffers an introduction to the family Leguminosae, a draft checklist of the legumes of the world, and online searching of the World Database of Legumes
- IUCN red list of threatened speciesConservation status, taxonomy, and distribution of animals and plants, along with an evaluation of their risk of extinction
- Melastomataceae of the worldFlorida Museum of Natural History provides this clearinghouse for information on this family of tropical plants
- PLANTS DatabaseStandardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories
- The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference CollectionDigitized historical collection of plant anatomical microscope slides that were made by W.T. Swingle, one of the twentieth century’s foremost authorities on citrus plants
- Tree of life web projectThe Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. The project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny)
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